Red Hat Academy Open Tech Series

Open Source Evangelist

As EMEA evangelist, Jan Wildeboer is responsible for high-level customer relations and for strengthening the Red Hat brand and ecosystem. Wildeboer is focussed on helping generate awareness and adoption of open standards across Europe, through community involvement and continuous championing of open source. As a lobbyist for open source in Brussels, Wildeboer was a leader in the successful movement to abolish the Software Patents directive in the European Parliament. He is a member of the Open Forum Europe, open source Business Foundation (OSBF) and European Committee on Interoperable Systems (ECIS).

Red Hat Training Solution Architect

Mohamed Zaher has been working as a technical IT instructor since early 2006. His training career involved network infrastructure, data center infrastructure, virtualization and collaboration technologies. He is currently a Red Hat certified Engineer and Red Hat certified Instructor working as a full time Training Solution Architect in Red Hat EMEA carrying with him over 15 years of Technical IT Training experience.

Red Hat Academy Program Manager & Red Hat Channel Manager

Jose has been part of the ITC industry for 35 years after obtaining a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Kansas (USA) in 1986. Since then, Jose has worked in HP, Sun Microsystems (among others), and in most cases holding sales & sales management roles related to Channel. Jose has been in Red Hat for the last 14 years as part of the EMEA Training & Certification department.

RHA Program Manager Europe, CIS & Israel

Sandra has broad international experience having lived and graduated in the UK, Germany and France with studies in Business and Master in International Management with MBA Accreditation. She speaks 5 foreign languages based in Germany and is Program Manager for Red Hat Academy in EMEA for 3 years, currently focusing on Europe, CIS and Israel. Sandra helps students gain the theoretical and practical skills from the global Open Source leader to reach their academic and career potential, empowering them to be successful in the challenging fast-paced market.

RHA Program Manager Middle East,Turkey and Africa

With a computer Science background, Noha worked in sales in Cairo, Egypt, before moving to Dubai. Following her passion towards IT education as an integral part of today's world Noha is now the Program Manager for Red Hat Academy, handling Middle East, Turkey and Africa. Noha is supporting the enablement of the students with the IT skills the market demands and helping to grow the open source talent in the region.

Open Leadership Global Lead & Coach

Shabnoor Shah is the global lead for open leadership at RH Open Innovation Labs. She's also a certified and ICF credentialed coach. Her work focuses on incorporating open organisation principles drawn from open source developmental mode, to help leaders develop new, open and agile ways of working and leading.
She's with Red Hat for almost six years with a broad remit to help individuals and teams achieve outcomes by developing the appropriate mindset, belief, attitudes, and behaviors to navigate and operate optimally at all levels.
Prior to that she was a Lecturer in Management at the European Business School, Munich, and an Executive Vice President at PWN Global, a worldwide professional development network. She has also held positions at IBM, Airtel and AOL. She holds an MBA from Pondicherry University, Bangalore and is due to complete her Ph.D in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Walden University, Minneapolis.

Associate Manager, Red Hat EMEA Graduate Program

Diana's passion is to work with students and young graduates. Enabling them with finding ways in which they can build an exciting and fruitful career journey for themselves is very rewarding. She has been with Red Hat for 5 years in various roles, and at the moment is managing the EMEA Graduate Program that welcomes every year around 20 graduates starting their careers. Diana lives in Germany and has an international background having lived in multiple European countries.

Senior Manager, Red Hat Global Social Innovation Program

Alexandra Machado leads the Social Innovation Program at Red Hat. She is a thought leader in the open source and cross sector collaboration space. Machado is passionate about defining new and better technological and corporate culture strategies to help the world be better equipped to overcome global problems. She holds an MBA and MSc in Information and Communications Technologies. She currently lives in New York City.

Red Hat Principal Consultant Financial Services

Christopher Tate has lived in the United States, Québec, and France, building websites for local communities and organizations around the world his whole career.
He focuses on automating the development of cutting-edge, open source, reactive technology into websites, Open APIs, and analytics that are data driven, searchable, and deployed on OpenShift.
Christopher believes that building shared solutions for our communities, leveraging each other's expertise, to solve common problems is the most important work we can do. He believes in the words of Richard Goodman, "Open is an opportunity, a chance to broaden the mind, free tools and resources to benefit all of mankind. Open is an aperture, something you look through, access for all, not just the few."

Associate UX Desinger, Open Innovation Labs - EMEA

Jordi is a UX and Service Designer who loves interacting with people and organisations by providing space for creativity and communication to ensure user needs and project goals are met.
Jordi has been at Red Hat for 2 years and is currently part of Open Innovation Labs as a User Experience (UX) Designer.

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Experienced recruiter from Slovakia, responsible for Graduate Program hiring across EMEA region.
My goal at Red Hat is to discover and engage fresh graduates passionate about technology and their own work. Talented souls who want to be part of a living community where everyone is welcome to contribute and introduce them to our early talent opportunities.

Open Transformation Principal - EMEA

Chris Baynham-Hughes is the head of Red Hat's Open Innovation Labs in EMEA. He is passionate about discovering and enabling better ways of working for teams, organisations and leaders. Chris maintains that the key to unlocking potential within these groups is first to ensure a shared purpose and vision within a hypothesis led culture, to nurture that within a psychologically safe environment and to use Open practices that address the challenges faced; in short, it's culture first.
He has over 20 years in the game, working across all areas of IT from engineering to strategy and delivery of transformational change that sticks. Chris believes the next organisational paradigm is Open and, whilst all are important, places greater value on resilience, sustainability and organisational agility than operational efficiency.
He is a husband, father of two boys, DJ, whitewater kayaker and adventurer. He's often found running and swimming my way around mountain landscapes.